
The Future Is in Your Hands
Portrait Photography from Senegal
- 284 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration.
The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for photography to highlight the role of affect in portraiture practices. Moving from the colonial to the newly independent Senegal, Beth Buggenhagen combines museum, ethnographic, and archival research on photography's past with lens-based artists who address themes of separation, visibility, rupture, and repatriation through portraiture. Buggenhagen, in collaboration with Senegalese photographers, explores how photographs, as visual and material objects, migrate themselves and, like the bodies they represent, create a record not only of lived experiences but also of the cycle of migration for this labor-exporting country.
By complicating the history of portraiture in Senegal, The Future Is in Your Hands reveals the enduring power of images and the efforts under way to keep this art form safely in Senegalese hands.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Portraits and the Weight of the Future
- 1. âUncontrollable Circulationâ: Portraiture in and out of Senegal
- 2. âSend Us Your Photosâ: Portraiture in Bingo Magazine
- 3. Family Portraits
- 4. Ibrahima Thiamâs Vintage Portraits
- 5. Cut from the Same Cloth: Omar Victor Diopâs The Studio of Vanities
- Epilogue: New Thresholds for âReigniting Collectionsâ
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author